Jesus makes it clear that children (more accurately read as “very young children” or “toddlers” in the ancient texts) are to be considered role models for our behavior – especially the unconditional Love they exhibit in their interactions with others & the innocent Wonderment they exude in their interactions with their surroundings (see Matthew 18:3-4 – “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like very young children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Indeed, whoever becomes humble like this very young child is the greatest in the Kingdom” – see also Matthew 18:6-7 & Mark 10:13-16) … In marked contrast, Paul‘s reverence for the very young is nowhere to be seen in the Bible, and indeed he seems to at least once intimate exactly the opposite in his first letter to the Corinthians: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a child. And yet once I became a man, I did away with childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13:11)

 

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